The volume takes you on a journey to the world’s most beautiful houses set in gorgeous coastal settings.Living by the sea, surrounded by dunes, cliffs or wide beaches is a life in sync with nature, immersed in nature. Naturally, this preferred location near the water also leaves its imprint on the buildings there. On a functional level, beach houses have to offer protection against the wind and waves, but above all, as the supreme manifestation of longing turned into architecture, they must give room for experiencing nature.This volume invites you to rediscover and redefine life by the sea. The selected projects show the planning and construction possibilities in dealing with the special conditions of such locations. It presents creative designs and spatial concepts from all over the world of dreamlike, relaxed, and enjoyable living between water, air and earth.

Elaborating the diversity of timber architecture today for residential buildings for architects, interior designers, and builders. More and more architects and builders are exploring the possibilities of a material for the construction of houses that offers unparalleled major advantages regarding design, function and ecology. Wood is a renewable building resource that impresses with its natural qualities as well as its astonishing versatility, especially given a number of new techniques, processing options, and innovations. Moreover, wooden architecture represents a promising opportunity to work towards a more CO2-neutral future. Frank Lloyd Wright said about the world’s oldest building material that it is "universally beautiful" and "the most human of all materials", facts that are highlighted in this volume focusing on residences. The presented projects demonstrate the sheer endless possibilities of timber for architecture and interior design. From an aesthetic point of view, they also show completely new ways for, but not limited to, the design of individual homes.

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Krajinná architektura představuje širokou a pestrou paletu různých designů venkovního prostoru, strohých i hravých, romantických i extravagantních. Hlavními stavebními materiály zde jsou stromy a trávníky, květiny a keře. Kniha představuje základní faktografickou sumu a inspirační zdroj v jednom a přináší na 350 projektů z celého světa od rozlehlých přírodních i kulturních krajin přes pitoreskní zahrady a dvory až po zelené fasády nebo inovativní koncepty vnějšího prostoru, které se úplně obejdou bez zeleně. Společné je jim to, že nabízejí člověku ekologicky udržitelný životní prostor.

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